Igniter



L. V ARONSON.

IGNITER.

gPPLcAToN FILED MAR`30, 1922.

1,436,635. wanted Nov. 28, 1922.

` 3511' @rr-aww? Wu' Patented Nov. 28, 1922.

er'ree W A T LOUIS 'V. ARONSON, 0F NEWARK, NEW' JERSEY.

IGNITJER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS V. ARoNsoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and btate of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Igniters, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to gas igniters, and has as an object theprovision of an igniter for lighting gas burners Which will have a longlife for use, which will be convenient to use, and which will give abrilliant shower of sparks for the purpose.

An illustrative embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanyingdrawinofs, in whichligure l is a side elevation;

Figure 2 is a plan view and Figure 3 is an exploded detail perspectiveview of portions of thedevice.

As shown in 'Fig. 1, the device comprises a frame 10 constructed of asingle piece of material, being bent into a downwardly directed loop 11to provide a handle, an upper horizontal portion 1 2 to which thetrigger 13 is pivoted, a portion 14 downwardly offset from the portion12 and extending horizontally forward, and extremity 15 of thematerial'being doubled backward upon the portion 14 and turneddownwardly at an angle thereto.

The second end of the material 16 is turned upwardly at an angle to alower horizontal portion 17 and the vertical portions 15 and 16 areperforated by means of slots 18-19.

A reciprocating member 20 is adapted'to slide through the slots 18- and19 and, 'as shown, carries a friction member 21, shown as a piece offile secured' at its forward end as by being seated in a recess 22 andby having portions of the material of the member 20 upset over it as at23-24. To return the member 20 to the position shown in Fig. 1 a coilspring 25 is shown surround- .ing the member 20 seating against theportion 16 of' the frame as an abutment and acting upon the, member 20by seating against a pin 26 passed therethrough.

To retract the member 20 the trigger 13- havng an end 27 passing througha slot 28 .ward movement in contact with the in the frame acting as afulcrum and also working through a slot 29 in the member 17 of theframe, has a pin 30 coacting witl a notch 31 in the member 20.

As the trigger '13 is moved to the rear by the fing'er of the user thepin 30 will travel in the arc of a circle and the member 20 will bemoved to' the rear until its extremity 32 abuts against the' ortion 33of the frame when its rearwar motion will be checked. At this time thepin 30 wili be on the portion of its arc which iscurving upwardly andcontinued motion of the trigger will release the pin from the notch 31,allowing the member 20 to be snapped to its normal position.

A cylinder 34 is shown as mounted in the `forward end of the portion 14of the frame,

and a piece of pyrophoric material 35 is mounted upon a loop 37 s'ecuredto the porv tion 14 of the frame, the loop 37 passing through the coils38 of the spring. An end of the spring is seated in a perforation 39 in'the frame and the other end 40 seats in slots 4:1 in the cylinder 34and presses upon the end of the pyrophoric material 35. The frictionelement 21 by its sudden for- PYI'O' phoric vmaterial will produce abrilliant shower of Sparks sufficient to readily ignite a gas burner.

To return the trigger 13 to normal position after ignition of the member20 a coil spring 42 is shown anchor'ed ,upon an e2- tension of the pin30 and in an opening 43 at the base of the portion 16 of the' frame. Themember 20 bein pressed downwardl) by spring 36'at' its orward end willhave a fulcrum in thev lower end of the slot 19, causin the portionbearing the notch 31 to be resi iently pressed upwardly. When thetrigger 13 is' returned the member 20 will be presseddownward by the pin30 with yielding of spring 36 until its position over housed in theframe and since the slots 18-19 are also centrally placed in the frame,the member 20 is provided with a lateralofi'set at 44:, so as to bringthe portion of the member 20 opposite the trigger to one side of thetrigger.

Minor changes may be made in the physical embodiment of the inventionWithout departing from 'its spirit.

I claim: f

1. An igniter comprising, in combination, a frame comprising a pair ofspaced vertical portions having slots therein, a reciprocatiig memberacting in said slots, a spring abutting against onev of said portionsand against an element of said reeiprocating member to return saidmember to normal, a trigger pivoted in said frame having an elementcoacting With a notch in said member, said member adapted tocontact'with a portion of the frame at the rearvvard limit of its motionWhereby the trigger is released from the member with sudden return ofthe member to normal position, a friction element moved by said member,a pyrophoric element in contact With said friction element.

2. Aniigniter comprising a frame formed of a strip of material bent toform a handle loop, a horizontal portion and a pair of spaced portionsextending perpendicular to dsaid horizontal portion, said last namedportion having slots, a reciprocating member mounted in said slots andextending into the handle loop, a spring anchored to one of said spacedportions to return said member to normal, a friction element actuated bysaid member, a pyrophorc element carried by said horizontal portion incontact with said friction element, means mounted in the frame toactuate said reciprocating member.

3. An igniter comprising a frame, a notched reciprocable member' mountedin the frame, a portion of the frame adapted to limit the movement ofthe member from its normal position and to deflect the member laterallyat the end of its movement from normal, a trigger having an elementcoacting with the notch in said member vand aadapted to release saidmember When its limit of movement from normal is reached, a 'spring toreturn said member to normal, a friction element actuated by said memberand a pyrophoric element in contact with said friction element.

4. An igniter comprising a strip of material bent on itself to form aloop, a portion of the loop bent dovvnvvardlyl to form a handle and aportion thereof extending for-` Wardlyand having slots in, its members,a portion of said strip extendin forWardly from said loop, the end ofsai forwardly extending portion doubled on itself and the extremity bentdownwardly and slotted, the other extremity of the strip bent upwardlyso g toward the forvvardly extending portion and 'Louisv. ARoNsoN.

